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moot earth

moot earth noun: soil taken from between the roots of a tree.

Noun

moot earth (uncountable)

  1. (West-Country) Soil taken from between the roots of a tree.
    • It is the nature of lime to attract oils, and dissolve vegetable bodies: Hence arise the good effects of lime in the improvement of black moorish land. Moot earth seems to consist of dissolved and half-dissolved vegetable substances, and it is said that lime assimilates the one, and dissolves the...1794, James MacPhail, “Of Manures, Earths &c”, in A Treatise on the Culture of the Cucumber, pages 510–511

Origin of moot earth

moot (“tree stump”) + earth (“soil”)

Questions about moot earth

What does moot earth mean?
Moot earth means soil taken from between the roots of a tree.
What part of speech is moot earth?
Moot earth is a noun.

Words near moot earth in the dictionary

  1. Moosulmauns
  2. Moosup
  3. moot
  4. moot court
  5. moot courts
  6. moot earth
  7. moot hall
  8. moot hill
  9. moot point
  10. moot points
  11. moot-axe

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